A Russian court on Thursday sentenced a man to five years in prison over rare opposition protests in the Urals republic of Bashkortostan. A court in the city of Orsk said in a statement that a 50-year-old man had been found guilty of “participating in mass unrest” and “violence against law enforcement officers” in the…
A business meeting between Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, and Alparslan Bayraktar, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Türkiye, took place in Istanbul. The parties discussed the implementation status of the largest joint Russian and Turkish project for today – Akkuyu NPP, as well as the potential prospects for expansion of cooperation. “As…
Oil deliveries to Hungary and Slovakia from Russian oil giant Lukoil have come to a halt due to Ukrainian sanctions, media reported Thursday. Restrictions signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month effectively banned Russia’s second-largest oil producer Lukoil from using Ukraine as a transit hub. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said late Tuesday that Lukoil…
Authorities in Russia on Thursday added the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to the country’s list of “undesirable” organizations. While the listing does not specify why the organization was added, it does cite a decision by Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office from July 1 to designate Carnegie as “undesirable.” It was not immediately clear what specific…
Russia may make a new deployment of nuclear weapons in response to U.S. plans to station missiles in Germany, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Thursday. “I’m not ruling out any options,” Ryabkov was quoted as saying by the state-run Interfax news agency. “Considering the combined capabilities of NATO member countries, we must calibrate…
A former U.S. paratrooper and rock musician detained in Russia more than a year ago on drug charges was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Thursday, the Moscow court system’s press service said. Michael Travis Leake, who fronted the Moscow-based rock band Lovi Noch, was detained in June 2023 after prosecutors accused him of…
A Moscow court has banned the sale of toilet paper with printed patterns of 1,000-ruble bills, the independent news website Vyorstka reported Thursday, citing the court’s ruling. The decorative toilet paper was deemed to “offend religious feelings” since the 1,000-ruble banknote depicts Yaroslav the Wise, an 11th-century Kyivan Rus’ prince who was made a saint…
The Erarta contemporary art museum in St. Petersburg is facing administrative charges for displaying a painting that the authorities claim contains “Nazi symbols,” a spokesperson for the city’s court system said Thursday. An administrative case against the museum was brought before the Vasilevsky District Court, which is in the same neighborhood where Erarta is located,…
Rosneft’s subsidiaries in Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Krai Ministry of Education signed an Agreement on the creation of educational and production clusters «Transport. Logistics» and «Fuel and Energy Complex» in the region as part of the implementation of the Federal Project «Professionalitet»
The United States has handed a three-year prison sentence to a Russian businessman who admitted to smuggling military-grade electronics to Russia, the U.S. Justice Department announced Wednesday. Maxim Marchenko, who lived and operated several companies in Hong Kong, was arrested in September and pleaded guilty to smuggling and money laundering in a New York court…
Russia’s Constitutional Court has banned the euthanasia of stray animals unless they pose a direct threat to humans, state media reported Thursday. “Killing animals without owners is an extraordinary measure, which is justified only when others cannot ensure an adequate level of protection of a person, their rights and freedoms and public safety,” Russia’s Constitutional…
Timur Kamaev, a prominent Imam from Russia’s republic of Tatarstan, found himself at the center of a nationwide scandal this week after releasing a video in which he appears to instruct believers on the proper ways to beat one’s wife. Released on Monday as a part of the Tea With Hazrat podcast series, the original…
Updated with AFP report. The espionage trial of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich resumed on Thursday morning behind closed doors in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, local media reported. The hearing was originally set to resume on Aug. 13, but Gershkovich’s defense lawyers had requested the date be moved up. Thursday’s hearing is closed…
Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Thursday morning that it had downed dozens of Ukrainian aerial and waterborne drones targeting the annexed Crimean peninsula in an overnight attack. “Air defense systems on duty destroyed and intercepted 33 aerial drones over… Crimea,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that forces “in the Black Sea destroyed 10…